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Jonathan Romney

Michael Kohlhaas

23-May-2013
Dir: Arnaud des Pallières. France-Germany. 2013. 121mins
Norte, The End Of History

23-May-2013
Dir: Lav Diaz. Philippines 2013. 250mins
Blue Is The Warmest Colour

23-May-2013
Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche. France-Belgium-Spain 2013. 179mins
Weekend Of A Champion

21-May-2013
Dir: Frank Simon. France-UK. 2012. 93mins
Me Myself And Mum

20-May-2013
Dir/scr: Guillaume Gallienne. France. 2013. 95mins
Tip Top

19-May-2013
Dir: Serge Bozon. France. 2013. 106mins
Stop The Pounding Heart

17-May-2013
Dir/scr: Roberto Minervini. US-Italy-Belgium. 2013. 101mins
Heli

16-May-2013
Dir: Amat Escalante. Mexico. 2013. 105mins
Swimming Pool

15-Feb-2013
Dir: Carlos Machado Quintela. Cuba-Venezuela. 2012. 66 mins
Camille Claudel 1915

12-Feb-2013
Dir: Bruno Dumont. France. 2013. 97mins
When I Saw You

12-Feb-2013
Dir/scr: Annemarie Jacir. Palestine-Jordan-UAE-Greece. 2012. 93mins
Layla Fourie

11-Feb-2013
Dir: Pia Marais. Germany-South Africa-France-Netherlands. 2013. 108mins
In Bloom

11-Feb-2013
Dirs: Nana Ekvtimishvili Simon Gross. Germany-Georgia-France. 2013. 102mins
The Nun

10-Feb-2013
Dir: Guillaume Nicloux. France-Germany-Belgium. 2012. 114mins
Everyday Objects

9-Feb-2013
Dir: Nicolas Wackerbarth. Germany-France. 2013. 80mins
A Long And Happy Life

9-Feb-2013
Dir: Boris Khlebnikov. Russia. 2013. 77mins
I Used To Be Darker

9-Feb-2013
Dir: Matt Porterfield. US. 2013. 90mins
In The Name Of

8-Feb-2013
Dir: Malgoska Szumowska. Poland. 2013. 101mins
Camille Rewinds

27-May-2012
Dir: Noémie Lvovsky. France. 2012. 120mins
11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate

25-May-2012
Dir: Koji Wakamatsu. Japan. 2012. 119mins
Post Tenebras Lux

24-May-2012
Dir/scr: Carlos Reygadas. Mexico-France-Germany. 2012. 120 mins
Le Grand Soir

23-May-2012
Dirs/scr: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. France. 2012. 92mins
Holy Motors

23-May-2012
Dir/scr: Leos Carax. France-Germany. 2012. 115mins
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

22-May-2012
Dir: Alain Resnais. France-Germany. 2012. 115mins
Night Across The Street

21-May-2012
Dir: Raul Ruiz. Chile-France. 2012. 110mins
God's Neighbours

21-May-2012
Dir: Meni Yaesh. Israel-France. 2012. 127mins
Amour

20-May-2012
Dir/scr: Michael Haneke. France-Germany-Austria. 2012. 127mins
In A Rush

19-May-2012
Dir/scr: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing. France. 2012. 93mins
Ulrike Ottinger – Nomad From the Lake

16-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Brigitte Kramer. Germany 2012. 86mins
Wilaya

15-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Pedro Pérez Rosado. Spain 2011. 88mins
Winter Nomads

14-Feb-2012
Dir: Manuel von Stürler. Switzerland 2012. 90mins
Calm At Sea

14-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Volker Schlöndorff. France-Germany 2011. 89mins
Home For The Weekend

14-Feb-2012
Dir: Hans-Christian Schmidt. Germany. 2012. 88mins
I, Anna

12-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Barnaby Southcombe. UK-Germany-France. 2012. 93mins
The Wall

12-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Julian Roman Pölsler. Austria-Germany 2012. 108mins
Childish Games

11-Feb-2012
Dir: Antonio Chavarrías. Spain 2011. 95 mins
Kid-Thing

11-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: David Zellner. US. 2012. 83mins
Barbara

11-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Christian Petzold. Germany 2012.105mins
Lost In Paradise

11-Feb-2012
Dir: Vu Ngoc Dang. Vietnam 2011. 103 mins
Coming Home

10-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Frédéric Videau. France. 2012. 91mins
Death Row

10-Feb-2012
Dir/scr: Werner Herzog. US-UK-Austria. 2012. 188mins
Farewell My Queen

9-Feb-2012
Dir: Benoït Jacquot. France-Spain. 2012. 100mins
Two Years At Sea

9-Sep-2011
Dir: Ben Rivers. UK 2011. 88mins
Dark Horse

5-Sep-2011
Dir/scr: Todd Solondz. US 2011. 85mins
That Summer

2-Sep-2011
Dir: Philippe Garrel. France-Italy-Switzerland 2010. 95mins
The Day He Arrives

22-May-2011
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. South Korea 2011. 79mins
Bachelor Days Are Over

21-May-2011
Dir: Katia Lewkowicz. France 2011. 99mins
The Conquest

18-May-2011
Dir: Xavier Durringer. France 2011. 105 mins
Pater

18-May-2011
Dir: Alain Cavalier. France. 2011. 105mins
Le Havre

17-May-2011
Dir/scr: Aki Kaurismäki. Finland-France-Germany. 2011. 93mins
Outside Satan

16-May-2011
Dir/scr: Bruno Dumont. France. 2011. 109mins
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

15-May-2011
Dir: Robert Guédiguian. France-Belgium-Italy. 2011. 107mins
The Kid With A Bike

15-May-2011
Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. France-Belgium-Italy. 2011. 87mins.
Leadersheep

14-May-2011
Dir: Christian Rouaud. France 2011. 118 mins
Michel Petrucciani

14-May-2011
Director Michael Radford. France-Germany-Italy. 2011. 102mins
Poliss

13-May-2011
Dir: Maïwenn. France. 2011. 127mins
If Not Us, Who

18-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Andres Veiel. Germany 2011. 124mins
The Terrorists

17-Feb-2011
Dir: Thunska Pansittivorakul. Thailand-Germany 2011. 103mins
Our Grand Despair

17-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Seyfi Teoman. Turkey-Germany-Netherland. 2011. 102mins
The Turin Horse

15-Feb-2011
Director: Bela Tarr. Hungary-France-Switzerland-Germany 2011. 146mins
Target

15-Feb-2011
Dir: Alexander Zeldovich. Russia. 2011. 154mins
Service Entrance

15-Feb-2011
Dir: Philippe Le Guay. France 2010. 100 mins
Innocent Saturday

14-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Alexander Mindadze. Russia-Ukraine-Germany 2011. 90mins
The Fatherless

14-Feb-2011
Dir: Marie Kreutzer. Austria 2011. 105mins
E-Love

14-Feb-2011
Dir: Anne Villacèque. France 2010. 97 mins
Free Hands

13-Feb-2011
Dir: Brigitte Sy. France 2010. 100mins
Into The White Night

13-Feb-2011
Dir: Yoshihiro Fukagawa. Japan 2011. 149 mins
Mama Africa

13-Feb-2011
Dir: Mika Kaurismäki. Ger-S Afr-Fin 2011. 90 mins
Swans

12-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Hugo Vieira da Silva. Germany/Portugal 2011. 126mins
We Were Here

12-Feb-2011
Dir: David Weissman. US 2010. 90mins
The Big Trip

3-Feb-2011
Dir: Jérôme le Maire. Belgium 2011. 98mins.
The Screen Illusion

3-Feb-2011
Dir/scr: Mathieu Amalric. France 2010. 88mins
The Baron

31-Jan-2011
Dir: Edgar Pera. Portugal 2011. 94mins
A Stoker

31-Jan-2011
Dir/scr: Alexei Balabanov. Russia 2010. 80 mins
The Names Of Love (Le Nom Des Gens)

28-May-2010
Dir: Michel Leclerc. France 2010. 95mins
Young Girls In Black (Des Filles En Noir)

22-May-2010
Dir-scr:Jean Paul Civeyrac. France 2010. 85mins
Rebecca H. (Return To The Dogs)

21-May-2010
Dir-scr: Lodge Kerrigan. Fr-US. 2010. 71mins
Carlos

20-May-2010
Dir: Olivier Assayas. France 2010. 319mins.
Of Gods And Men (Des Hommes Et Des Dieux)

18-May-2010
Dir: Xavier Beauvois. France 2010. 120mins
R U There

17-May-2010
Dir: David Verbeek. Netherlands-France 2010. 87mins
Biutiful

17-May-2010
Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Mexico-Spain. 2010. 138mins
Love Like Poison (Un Poison Violent)

16-May-2010
Dir: Katell Quillévéré. Fr. 2010. 92mins
Chatroom

14-May-2010
Dir: Hideo Nakata. UK 2010. 97mins
The Strange Case of Angelica (O Estranho Caso de Angélica)

13-May-2010
Dir-scr Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-Spain-France-Brazil 2010. 104mins
On Tour (Tournée)

13-May-2010
Dir: Mathieu Amalric. France. 2010. 111mins.
About Her Brother (Otouto)

20-Feb-2010
Dir. Yoji Yamada. Japan. 2010. 126 mins.
A Family (En Familie)

19-Feb-2010
Dir. Pernille Fischer Christensen. Denmark 2010. 102 mins.
Puzzle (Rompecabezas)

18-Feb-2010
Dir/scr Natalia Smirnoff. Argentina/France 2010. 88 mins.
Fin (End)

18-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Luis Sampieri. Spain. 2009. 85mins.
On The Path (Na Putu)

18-Feb-2010
Dir/scr. Jasmila Žbanic. Bosnia and Herzegovina/Austria/ Germany/Croatia, 2009. 100 mins.
How I Ended This Summer (Kak Ya Provel Etim Letom)

17-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Alexei Popogrebsky. Russia. 2010. 124mins.
Heartless

17-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Philip Ridley. UK. 2009. 110mins.
The Hunter (Shekarchi)

16-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Rafi Pitts. Iran-Germany. 2010. 92mins.
Family Tree (L’Arbre Et La Forêt)

16-Feb-2010
Dirs/scr: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau. France. 2010. 97mins.
Red Hill

15-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Patrick Hughes. Australia. 2010. 95mins.
Bad Family (Paha Perhe)

14-Feb-2010
Dir/scr: Aleksi Salmenpera. Finland. 2010. 95mins.
The view from the stalls

4-Feb-2010
Screen critic Jonathan Romney casts his eye over this year’s Berlinale line-up
Eric Rohmer; A Career

12-Jan-2010
French veteran Eric Rohmer, who died on January 11 aged 89, was arguably the most misunderstood of the New Wave directors.
Antichrist

2-Jun-2009
Dir/scr Lars von Trier. Denmark. 2009. 104 mins.
Don’t Look Back (Ne Te Retourne Pas)

31-May-2009
Dir: Marina de Van. France/Lux/Belgium. 2009. 110 mins.
Petition (La Cour Des Plaignants)

22-May-2009
Director. Zhao Liang. France-China. 2009. 123 mins.
Navidad

21-May-2009
Dir. Sebastián Lelio. Chile-France. 2009. 104 mins.
To Die Like A Man (Morrer Como Um Homen)

21-May-2009
Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues. Portugal-France. 2009. 133 mins.
A Brand New Life (Une Vie Toute Neuve)

21-May-2009
Dir/scr Ounie Lecomte. France-S. Korea. 2009. 92 mins.
A Prophet (Un Prophete)

21-May-2009
Dir. Jacques Audiard. Fr / It. 2009. 150 mins.
Manila

19-May-2009
Dirs. Adolfo Alix Jr, Raya Martin Philippines. 2009. 90 mins.
Irène

18-May-2009
Dir. Alain Cavalier. France. 2009. 85 mins.
Father Of My Children (Le Père De Mes Enfants)

18-May-2009
Dir/scr. Mia Hansen-Løve. France. 2009. 110 mins.
Huacho

14-May-2009
Dir/scr. Alejandro Fernández Almendras. Chile-France-Germany. 2009. 89 mins.
Welcome

23-Mar-2009
Dir: Philippe Lioret. France. 2009. 105 mins.
Reviews - It Might Get Loud

13-Mar-2009
They've got axes to grind.
It Might Get Loud

11-Feb-2009
Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2009. 97mins.
Katalin Varga

11-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Peter Strickland. Romania-UK-Hungary. 2009. 84mins.
Eccentricities Of A Blond-Haired Girl (Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loura)

11-Feb-2009
Dir: Manoel de Oliveira. Portugal-France-Spain. 2009. 63mins.
Double Take

11-Feb-2009
Dir: Johan Grimonprez. Belgium-Germany-Netherlands. 2008. 80mins.
The Countess

10-Feb-2009
Dir/scr/music: Julie Delpy. Germany-France. 2009. 94mins.
London River

10-Feb-2009
Dir: Rachid Bouchareb. Algeria-France-UK. 2009. 87mins.
Everyone Else (Alle Anderen)

9-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Maren Ade. Germany. 2009. 119mins.
Bluebeard (Barbe-Bleue)

9-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Catherine Breillat. France. 2009. 80mins.
Mammoth

8-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Lukas Moodysson. Sweden-Germany-Denmark. 2009. 125mins.
In The Electric Mist

7-Feb-2009
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier. US-France. 2009. 117mins.
I Know You Know

7-Feb-2009
Dir/scr: Justin Kerrigan.UK. 2009. 81mins.
The Exploding Girl

6-Feb-2009
Dir: Bradley Rust Grey. US. 2009. 79mins.
The Girl On The Train (La Fille Du RER)

6-Feb-2009
Dir: Andre Techine.France. 2009. 105mins.
Dogging: A Love Story

28-Jan-2009
Dir: Simon Ellis. UK. 2009. 103 mins
The Strength Of Water

27-Jan-2009
Dir: Armagan Ballantyne. New Zealand-Germany. 2009. 86mins.
The Hungry Ghosts

27-Jan-2009
Dir/scr: Michael Imperioli. US. 2009. 105mins.
Palermo Shooting

24-May-2008
Dir: Wim Wenders. Germany-Italy-France. 2008. 124 mins.
Tulpan

23-May-2008
Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoi. Germany-Switzerland-Kazakhstan-Russia-Poland. 2008. 100 mins.
Johnny Mad Dog

21-May-2008
Dir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire. France/Liberia/Belgium. 2008. 93mins.
Involuntary (De Ofrivilliga)

20-May-2008
Dir: Ruben Östlund. Sweden. 2008. 98mins.
Maradona By Kusturica

20-May-2008
Dir: Emir Kusturica. France-Spain. 95mins.
Liverpool

20-May-2008
Dir: Lisandro Alonso. Argentina-Netherlands-France. 84mins
Sanguepazzo

20-May-2008
Dir: Marco Tullio Giordana. Italy-France. 2008. 148mins .
Tony Manero

19-May-2008
Dir: Pablo Larrain. Chile-Brazil. 2008. 98mins .
Voyage To The Pyranees (Le Voyage aux Pyrenees)

18-May-2008
Dir/scr. Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu.France. 2008. 102 mins.
Soi Cowboy

17-May-2008
Dir/scr Thomas Clay. Thailand/UK. 2008. 117 mins.
Linha De Passe

16-May-2008
Dir: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas. Brazil-France. 2008. 108 mins.
Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun)

16-May-2008
Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turkey-France-Italy. 2008. 109 mins.
The Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)

18-Feb-2008
Dir: Jose Padilha. 2007, Brazil, Argentina. 118 mins.
I've Loved You So Long... (Il Ya Longtemps Que Je T'aime...)

15-Feb-2008
Dir: Philippe Claudel. France/Germany. 2008. 110 mins.
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

14-Feb-2008
Dir: Matt Wolf. US. 2008. 70mins.A long-neglected cult musician gets his well-deserved moment in the limelight in Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, a moving, celebratory documentary that will turn many viewers on to its subject's strange, compelling sounds. Expect neither myth-making nor music-biz scandal from this level-headed, informative piece, but do expect to be moved by the story of an under-rated visionary who died tragically young in ...
Filth and Wisdom

13-Feb-2008
Dir: Madonna. UK. 2008. 81 minsContrary to billing, there's not much filth and precious little wisdom in Madonna's directing debut. Even so, you have to applaud her for daring to get behind a camera, given that her career in front of it has been strewn with clunkers. While Filth And Wisdom may not quite inhabit the same Hall of Shame as Shanghai Surprise, Body of Evidence and (God save us) Swept ...
Full Battle Rattle

13-Feb-2008
Dir: Tony Gerber, Jesse Ross. US. 2008. 92 minsAmerican tanks roll under the desert sun, the minaret of a mosque stands out on the horizon, a wounded soldier spurts blood... a scene from the Iraq war, surely' Not quite - the tanks are real, but the mosque isn't, and even the soldier is a dummy. US documentary Full Battle Rattle is without a doubt the most bizarre ...
War Child

13-Feb-2008
Happy-Go-Lucky

12-Feb-2008
Dir: Mike Leigh. US/UK. 2007 118mins.
Son of a Lion

11-Feb-2008
Dir: Benjamin Gilmour. Australia/Pakistan. 2007. 92mins.Childrens' exposure to gun culture is fast becoming one of the fail-safe themes of world cinema, but we haven't yet seen it in quite the context presented by the inventive Pakistan-set drama Son Of A Lion.Benjamin Gilmour's no-frills DV feature, co-written with collaborators from the towns of Kohat and Darra Adem Khel in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) of ...
The Song Of Sparrows

10-Feb-2008
Dir: Majid Majidi. Iran. 2008. 98 mins.
Rail Road Crossing (Pas a nivell)

29-Jan-2008
Dir: Pere Vilà. Spain. 2007. 103 mins.For many viewers, Catalan drama Rail Road Crossing will seem like the watching-paint-dry film par excellence. At first sight, Pere Vilà's debut feature exemplifies the three-act structure of art cinema: nothing happens, nothing happens and still nothing happens. But for viewers prepared to go with its very reticent flow, Rail Road Crossing will be a rewarding low-key pleasure - an ...
57000 km Between Us (57000 KM entre nous)

29-Jan-2008
Dir: Delphine Kreuter. France. 2007. 82 mins.Hell is other people - especially family, and especially when they have a camcorder in hand. That's the message of Delphine Kreuter's debut 57 000 KM Between Us, a caustic exercise that uses its rough-edged DV medium to revealing effect, re-tuning French bourgeois comedy for the digital age. The film is so zeitgeist-specific that it could date quickly, but Kreuter's scrutiny of online mores is sincere rather than ...
The King of Ping Pong (Ping-Pongkingen)

28-Jan-2008
Dir: Jens Jonsson. Sweden. 2007. 107 mins.Growing pains in a cold climate: this formula has reaped handsome dividends for Nordic cinema in the past, most spectacularly for Lasse Hallström's My Life as a Dog, and more modestly for Dagur Kári's Icelandic art-house hit of 2003 Noi Albinoi. Swedish comedy-drama The King of Ping Pong looks set to follow in their wake: a contender in Rotterdam's Tiger Awards competition, it arrives ...
Waltz In Starlight (Hoshikageno Waltz)

26-Jan-2008
Dir: Shingo Wakagi. Japan. 2007. 97mins.Japanese photographer turned director Shingo Wakagi makes a tender homage to his grandfather in an affecting DV miniature that mixes fictionalized reminiscence with documentary touches. Borderline-experimental, the very personal Waltz In Starlight is essentially gentle portraiture with just a hint of narrative content, the film's intelligent, detached plea for inter-generational understanding offering an idiosyncratic update ...
My Marlon And Brando (Gitmek)

26-Jan-2008
Dir: Hüseyin Karabey. Turkey/Netherlands/UK. 2008. 92minsA Turkish woman embarks on a romantic journey as war breaks out in Iraq , in the tough, engaging road movie My Marlon And Brando. Billed as being 'based on a true story', the film derives its distinctive immediacy from the fact that its lead characters - star/co-writer Ayça Damgaci and Kurdish actor Hama Ali Kahn - are effectively playing themselves. The emotionally involving ...
Shot In Bombay

15-Jan-2008
Dir: Liz Mermin, UK/US 2007. 99mins.Fact proves racier than fiction in Shot In Bombay, Liz Mermin's documentary on the filming of a Bollywood action movie based on true events. The film in question is Shootout At Lokhandwala, director Apoorva Lakhia's 2007 thriller inspired by a real-life Mumbai gun battle between police and criminals in 1991.
Eastern Promises

10-Sep-2007
Dir: David Cronenberg US/UK/ Canada , 2007. 96minsA brutal, yet surprisingly tender thriller about Russian gangsters in London, Eastern Promises sees David Cronenberg once again displaying the sign of a true auteur - someone who can take seemingly uncharacteristic material and make it entirely his own. Written by Steve Knight, Eastern Promises comes across as very much a companion piece to Cronenberg's last film A History of Violence, ...
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Les Amours D'Astree et de Celadon)

5-Sep-2007
Dir: Eric Rohmer France /Spain/Italy 2007. 109minsThere are two Eric Rohmers. The more popular is the detached comic observer of modern emotional dilemmas, the maker of the Moral Comedies and Four Seasons series. The other is a sometimes forbidding experimental contriver of historical and literary dramas, such as Perceval le Gallois, La Marquise d'O and The Lady and the Duke. Rohmer's new feature belongs in the latter camp ...
A Girl Cut In Two (La Fille Coupee En Deux)

8-Aug-2007
Dir: Claude Chabrol France 2007. 115 mins tbcIt's cynical business as usual for Claude Chabrol, who offers plentiful style and psychological finesse, if few surprises, in his latest jaundiced and sophisticated entertainment. The story of a young woman caught between two rivalrous and highly unsuitable admirers, A Girl Cut In Two has the typical trappings of a Chabrol thriller, although it would be more accurate to call this a melodrama of manners with ...
I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster (J'ai Toujours Reve D'etre Un Gangster)

5-Aug-2007
Dir/scr: Samuel Benchetrit . Fr. 2007. 110minsCheerful absurdity, hangdog humour and a sober recognition that, when you come down to it, provincial France just isn't the wild frontier of American crime cinema - all this makes Samuel Benchetrit's downbeat farce a distinctively offbeat pleasure. A set of linked crime vignettes, centred around a drab roadside cafeteria, I Always Wanted to Be A Gangster is a knowing spoof on the themes and structure ...
The Substitute (Vikaren)

18-Jul-2007
Dir: Ole Bornedal. Denmark. 2007. 89minsAll children know that teachers are weird, but what if some of them turned out to be really weird - extra-terrestrially weird' This serviceable premise has yielded entertaining dividends before - notably in Robert Rodriguez's 1998 teen chiller The Faculty - and Danish spoof scarer The Substitute hardly breaks radical new ground.
You, The Living

30-May-2007
Dir/scr: Roy Andersson. Swe-Ger-Fr-Den-Nor. 2007. 94minsOne of European cinema's most distinctive stylists, and darkest humourists, returns with another tragi-comic panorama of the human condition ...
Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (Bunt: Delo Litvinenko)

29-May-2007
Dir/scr: Andrei Nekrasov. Ger. 2007. 113mins.A political hot potato dropped into the Cannes official selection at the last moment, Andrei Nekrasov's Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case is likely to spark more news stories than it answers questions.
The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse)

27-May-2007
Dir: Catherine Breillat. Fr-It. 2007. 114minsSeasoned provocatrice Catherine Breillat puts a predictably louche spin on the costume drama genre in An Old Mistress, her adaptation of an 1851 novel by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Well known for her sexually explicit and intellectually confrontational dramas such as Romance and Anatomy Of Hell, Breillat here shakes historical drama out of its petticoats, with a torrid but rigorously executed tale ...
Promise Me This (Promets-moi)

27-May-2007
Dir: Emir Kusturica. Fr-Serb. 2007. 140mins'Never knowingly understated' continues to be the motto of Serbian madcap director Emir Kusturica. All the usual ingredients are present in Promise Me This, the latest knockabout episode of Emir's Balkan Follies - manic overacting, slapstick, wildly cartoonish characters and the usual menagerie of hapless animals (this time including cats, goats, a cow, a warthog and a turkey in a bonnet).
The Man From London (A Londoni Ferfi)

24-May-2007
Dir: Bela Tarr Hung-Fr-Ger. 2007. 135 mins
Chop Shop

23-May-2007
Dir: Ramin Bahrani. US. 2007. 84 mins A flawlessly observed piece of street realism, and an unforgiving parable of American economic reality, Chop Shop is a compelling follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani's 2005 debut.
Go Go Tales

23-May-2007
Dir/scr: Abel Ferrara. It/US. 2007. 96 mins Abel Ferrara , king of New York low-life drama, slips into more benign mode than usual with Go Go Tales, a good-natured but somewhat half-baked evocation of life backstage at a lap dancing club.
Magnus

20-May-2007
Dir/scr: Kadri Kousaar. Est/UK 2007. 86 mins Seamy low life, chic depression and off-the-wall humour make a heady if uneven mixture in the debut feature by Estonia's Kadri Kousaar. Magnus presents a morose, sometimes blackly witty view of life in contemporary Estonia from the point of view of a suicidal young man and his father.
The 11th Hour

20-May-2007
Dir: Leila Conners Petersen & Nadia Conners. USA . 2007. 91 mins.Leonardo DiCaprio discreetly lends his weight as star and environmental campaigner to The 11th Hour, an unashamedly polemical documentary cum call-to-arms about the current dire state of the ecology - and future prospects for change.
Water Lilies (Naissance des Pieuvres)

20-May-2007
Dir/scr: Celine Sciamma. France 2007. 85 mins Every Cannes festival brings at least one sexually delicate French coming-of-age drama, and while Water Lilies is hardly mould-breaking, it's certainly an affecting and more than competent addition to the genre.
Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour)

18-May-2007
Dir/scr: Christophe Honore Fr. 2007. 95 mins The genre of the realist-inflected arthouse musical has intermittently thrived in France , ever since it was kick-started by Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Papapluies de Cherbourg). It's an institution that ambitious French directors have returned to with regularity, with even the likes of Godard and Rivette dabbling in it, while the last really successful ...
Control

18-May-2007
Dir: Anton Corbijn. UK. 2007. 119mins.
Celebration

6-Mar-2007
Dir: Olivier Meyrou. Fr. 2007. 74mins.
Anna M

28-Feb-2007
Dir/scr: Michel Spinosa. Fr. 2007. 106mins.
The Unpolished (Die Unerzogenen)

25-Feb-2007
Dir: Pia Marais. Ger. 2007. 95mins
Good Morning, Mister Grothe (Guten Morgen, Herr Grothe)

20-Feb-2007
Dir: Lars Kraume. Ger. 2007. 90mins
Angel

17-Feb-2007
Dir: François Ozon. Fr-UK-Bel. 2007. 137mins
Hallam Foe

16-Feb-2007
Dir: David Mackenzie. UK. 2007. 96mins.
Don't Touch The Axe (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)

16-Feb-2007
Dir: Jacques Rivette. Fr-It. 2007. 137mins Elegance, austerity, high seriousness, barbed wit: this heady combination might not be to everyone's taste, but anyone susceptible to literary costume drama at its most intellectually substantial will be bowled over by Don't Touch The Axe, Jacques Rivette's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Balzac's novel La Duchesse De Langeais.
Yella

15-Feb-2007
Dir/writer: Christian Petzold. Germany 2007.89 minsFor some, existential business-world drama Yella will be the proverbial mystery wrapped within a riddle wrapped within an enigma. But for audiences with a taste for intellectual stimulation, ...
Irina Palm

14-Feb-2007
Dir: Sam Garbarski Bel-Ger-Lux-UK-Fr. 2007. 103mins It may be the work of a German-born, Belgian-based director, but Euro co-production Irina Palm is a thoroughly British film at heart - the latest in that 'naughty-but-nice' vein of stories that delight in placing genteel ...
Mein Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler (Mein Fuhrer - Die Wirklich Wahrste Wahrheit Uber Adolf Hitler)

13-Feb-2007
It's not quite The Great Dictator, nor Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be (nor even Mel Brooks's remake of it). But for audacity and good intentions at least, Dani Levy's Hitler comedy
Witnesses (Les Temoins)

13-Feb-2007
Dir: Andre Techine. France. 2007. 115minsTechine powerfully reasserts his status as one of European cinema's most adult film-makers in Witnesses, a complex, assured evocation of the mid-80s, when French society was first confronted ...
Goodbye Bafana

12-Feb-2007
Dir: Bille August. France/Germany/Belgium/Italy/South Africa 2007. 117 mins Denmark's double Palme d'Or laureate Bille August takes on one of modern historical cinema's holy grails, after a fashion: in its indirect way, GoodbyeBafana
The Mark of Cain

31-Jan-2007
Dir: Marc Munden. UK. 2007. 90mins Moral dilemmas both public and personal form the core of The Mark of Cain, a gripping and very timely drama about British forces in Iraq. Written by playwright and TV screenwriter Tony Marchant (Kid in the Corner,
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007

19-Jan-2007
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam in numbers(2006 numbers in brackets)367,000 Visitors to the festival (358,000)2,940Festival guests (2,814)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

5-Nov-2006
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders)

14-Sep-2006
Demented (Le Dernier Des Fous)

15-Aug-2006
Dir: Laurent Achard. Fr. 2006. 96mins.
First Love (Hatsu-Koi)

29-Jun-2006
Inside Paris (Dans Paris)

29-Jun-2006
Transe

28-Jun-2006
Dir/scr: Teresa Villaverde. Port-Fr-It. 2006. 126mins.There are the seeds of a coherently harrowing drama about European sex traffic in Teresa Villaverde's Transe, but you have to dig deep to find them. Part road movie, part abstract essay and - as the title suggests - part free-floating hallucination, the latest film by the Portuguese writer-director will mystify most audiences, and bore even those with a yen for ultra- rarefied European art cinema. Sales potential ...
Komma

19-Jun-2006
Dir: Martine Doyen. Bel-Fr. 2006. 90mins.
To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (Bihisht Faqat Barqi Murdagon)

19-Jun-2006
Dir/scr: Djamshed Usmonov. Fr-Ger-Switz-Russ. 2006. 93mins.
Avida

14-Jun-2006
Dirs/scr: Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern. Fr. 2006. 83mins.
Transylvania

9-Jun-2006
France. 2006. 103mins. Director, screenplay Tony Gatlif
Colossal Youth

5-Jun-2006
Dir: Pedro Costa. Portugal/France/Switzerland 2006. 155 mins Without a doubt the most difficult film in this year's Cannes competition - where it provoked more walk-outs than any other film - Pedro Costa's hyper-austere Colossal Youth at least deserves some recognition and respect. While the film admittedly seems inert for large stretches of its challenging length, and many viewers will find it near-impossible to watch, Colossal Youth is nonetheless the work of ...
The Family Friend (L'Amico Di Famiglia)

26-May-2006
Dir, Scr: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy/France 2006. 110 mins A generally unsurprising Cannes competition received an invigorating blast of invention with The Family Friend, a stylish, dark but sometimes perplexing third feature from Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino.The story of a thoroughly grumpy old loanshark, this philosophical black comedy sets itself the challenge of making us sympathise with the most unlikeable character imaginable. Sorrentino's stylistic ...
The Right Of The Weakest (La Raison Du Plus Faible)

26-May-2006
Dir, scr: Lucas Belvaux. Belgium/France 2006. 116 minsA Belgian proletarian caper movie is hardly the first thing anyone expected from Lucas Belvaux, whose Trilogy, a set of three interlocking features, was an audacious formal anomaly in recent French mainstream cinema. The Right Of The Weakest lies halfway between working-class realism in a Ken Loach/Dardennes bracket, and a Melville-esque tough-guy crime drama. But the film's decidedly ordinary execution, ...
The Right Of The Weakest (La Raison Du Plus Faible)

26-May-2006
Dir, scr: Lucas Belvaux. Belgium/France 2006. 116 minsA Belgian proletarian caper movie is hardly the first thing anyone expected from Lucas Belvaux, whose Trilogy, a set of three interlocking features, was an audacious formal anomaly in recent French mainstream cinema. The Right Of The Weakest lies halfway between working-class realism in a Ken Loach/Dardennes bracket, and a Melville-esque tough-guy crime drama. But the film's decidedly ordinary execution, ...
Climates (Iklimler)

23-May-2006
Lights In The Dusk (Laitakaupungin Valot)

23-May-2006
Princess

20-May-2006
Dir: Anders Morgenthaler. Den. 2006. 80mins.
Paris, Je T'Aime

19-May-2006
Dirs: see credits below. Fr-Liech-Switz. 2006. 120mins.
The Unforgiven (Yongseobadji Mot-hanja)

19-Apr-2006
Dir/scr: Yoon Jong-bin. S Kor. 2005. 126mins.The traumas of masculinity and themilitary life are sensitively and obliquely probed in The Unforgiven, the debut feature fromKorean writer-director Yoon Jong-bin. Despitecurrents of menace and brutality, it lies at the more contemplative end ofSouth Korea's cinema spectrum, its elliptical, two-strand structure making itakin to the teasing narratives of Hong Sang-soo (The Day A Pig ...
The Peter Pan Formula (Peterpan-eui Gongsik)

7-Mar-2006
Hotel Harabati (De Particulier A Particulier)

27-Feb-2006
Absolute Wilson

23-Feb-2006
Dir/scr: Katharina Otto-Bernstein. US-Ger. 2006.105mins.
Dead Run (Shisso)

23-Feb-2006
Dir: Sabu.Jap. 2005. 124mins.
The Kick (Der Kick)

23-Feb-2006
It's Winter (Zemestan)

22-Feb-2006
Vitus

22-Feb-2006
1:1

20-Feb-2006
The Free Will (Der Freie Wille)

20-Feb-2006
Offside (Sweden, 2006)

17-Feb-2006
Dir: Jafar Pahani. Iran. 2006. 88mins.
The Comedy Of Power (L'Ivresse Du Pouvoir)

17-Feb-2006
Longing (Senhsucht)

16-Feb-2006
Dir:Valeska Grisebach. Germany.2006. 88 mins Astory ...
The Road To Guantanamo

15-Feb-2006
Dirs: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross. UK. 2006.95mins Michael ...
Snow Cake

9-Feb-2006
Dir: Marc Evans. UK-Can. 2006. 112minsWith itstale of two misfits who improbably bond in ...
Lunacy (Sileni)

4-Feb-2006
Klimt

1-Feb-2006
Dir: Raúl Ruiz. Aust-Ger-UK-Fr.2006. 129mins (Director's Cut)/97 mins (short version).There are biopics- and then there are biopics in the style of Raúl Ruiz. Anyone hoping for an easily comprehensible,fact-based ride through the life of Viennese painter Gustav Klimt(1862-1918) will be baffled by the flamboyantly discontinuous approach taken bythe prolific Chilean-born director here. ...
Unknown White Male

29-Nov-2005
Kissed By Winter (Vinterkyss)

1-Nov-2005
Separate Lies

15-Sep-2005
Riviera

9-Aug-2005
The Rising: The Ballad Of Mangal Pandey

4-Aug-2005
Housewarming (Travaux, On Sait Quand Ca Commence')

20-Jun-2005
Invisible (Les Invisibles)

8-Jun-2005
Sangre

7-Jun-2005
Cold Showers (Douches Froides)

2-Jun-2005
The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

1-Jun-2005
The Moustache (La Moustache)

31-May-2005
Dir:Emmanuel Carrere. Fr. 2005. 86mins.
Tale Of Cinema (Keuk jang jeon)

24-May-2005
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. SKor-Fr. 2005. 90mins
Tale Of Cinema (Keuk jang jeon)

24-May-2005
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. SKor-Fr. 2005. 90mins
Tale Of Cinema (Keuk jang jeon)

24-May-2005
Dir/scr: Hong Sangsoo. SKor-Fr. 2005. 90mins
To Paint Or Make Love (Peindre Ou Faire L'amour)

18-May-2005
The Child (L'Enfant)

17-May-2005
Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre andLuc Dardenne. Bel-Fr. 2005. 95mins
A History Of Violence

16-May-2005
I Am A Sex Addict

2-Feb-2005
With Blood On My Hands ' Pusher II (Pusher II)

2-Feb-2005
Dir/scr: Nicolas Winding Refn. Den. 2004. 96mins
The Forest For The Trees (Der Wald Vor Lauter Baumen)

25-Jan-2005
Dir:Maren Ade. Ger. 2003. 81minsA sober psychological drama about a novice teacher in meltdown, Maren Ade'slow-budget The Forest for the Trees builds slowly but assuredly toproduce an unsettling final kick. An introverted but commanding lead performanceby Eva Lobau should put her name on the map, as well as that of debut featuremaker Maren Ade, whose graduation film this is.
As It Is In Heaven (Sa Som I Himmelen)

4-Nov-2004
Dir/scr: Kay Pollak.Sweden-Denmark. 2004. 130mins
Melinda And Melinda

17-Sep-2004
Layer Cake

13-Sep-2004
Nelly (A Ce Soir)

9-Aug-2004
Right Now (A Tout De Suite)

9-Jul-2004
Our Music (Notre Musique)

2-Jul-2004
Dir/scr: Jean-Luc Godard. France 2004. 80minsA characteristically encyclopaedic disquisition onwords, images and war, the latest essay-fiction from Jean-Luc Godard is notobviously as visually striking as its predecessor, Eloge De l'Amour, andis considerably more dense verbally. But this three-parter shows Godard to beas perplexing and provocative as ever.
Schizo (Shiza)

28-Jun-2004
Dir: Guka OmarovaRuss-Kazahkstan-Fr-Ger. 2004. 90mins.
The Ordeal (Calvaire)

9-Jun-2004
Dir: Fabrice du Welz. Fr-Bel-Lux. 2004. 90mins.
Welcome To Switzerland (Bienvenue En Suisse)

7-Jun-2004
After We're Gone (En Attendant Le Deluge)

3-Jun-2004
Dir/scr: Damien Odoul. France. 2004. 80minsCannes simply would not be Cannes without at least onehighly-rated French auteur coming a cropper. This year it was the turn ofDamien Odoul, who made a dazzling debut in 2000 with Le Souffle, adream-like rural coming-of-age drama.
Clean

24-May-2004
House Of Flying Daggers

21-May-2004
Dir/scr: ZhangYimou. Chi-HK. 2004. 119mins
The Holy Girl (La Nina Santa)

20-May-2004
The Consequences Of Love (Las Consecuencias Del Amor)

17-May-2004
Dir/scr:Paolo Sorrentino, Italy. 2004. 100minsAn ice-coolexistential drama neatly poised on the borderline of thriller territory, PaoloSorrentino's elegant second feature marks the Neapolitan writer-director assomeone who knows just how to impose an individual stamp on idiosyncraticmaterial. A hyper-stylised, often slyly witty portrait of a loner in crisis,the film possibly gestures in the direction of more philosophical substancethan it may prove ...
En Route (Unterwegs)

2-Feb-2004
Peep 'TV' Show

30-Jan-2004
Aaltra

29-Jan-2004
Asshak, Tales From The Sahara (Asshak, Geschichte Aus Der Sahara)

29-Jan-2004
War (Vojna)

29-Jan-2004
Aaltra

28-Jan-2004
Anatomy Of Hell (Anatomie De L'Enfer)

27-Jan-2004
La Chose Publique

16-Sep-2003
Coming And Going (Vai E Vem)

24-Jul-2003
For She's A Jolly Good Fellow (Elle Est Des Notres)

22-Jul-2003
Playing 'In The Company Of Men' (En Jouant 'Dans La Compagnie Des Hommes')

15-Jul-2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

5-Jun-2003
Gozu

3-Jun-2003
Kitchen Stories (Salmer Fra Kjokkenet)

27-May-2003
That Day (Ce Jour-La)

22-May-2003
Young Adam

18-May-2003
The Principles Of Lust

21-Feb-2003
Noi The Albino (Noi Albinoi)

3-Feb-2003
Abouna (Our Father)

10-Dec-2002
Focus

12-Jul-2002
A Piece Of Sky (Une Part Du Ciel)

2-Jul-2002
El Bonaerense

2-Jul-2002
L'Adversaire (The Adversary)

2-Jul-2002
Lilo & Stitch

2-Jul-2002
The Uncertainty Principle (O Principio Da Incerteza)

2-Jul-2002
10

27-Jun-2002
Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiao Yao)

27-Jun-2002
REVIEW: Demonlover

23-May-2002
Dir: Olivier Assayas. France 2002. 129mins. Screened in Competition
The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)

23-May-2002
The Man Without A Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyytta)

23-May-2002
REVIEW: Kedma

17-May-2002
London Film Critics applaud Moulin Rouge

14-Feb-2002
France's UGC to enter UK distribution market

17-Dec-2001
French major UGC is planning to give foreign-language films a massive boost in the notoriously tough UK market by launching a UK distribution presence early next year.
Chan's biggest opener in four years is no accident

31-Jan-2001
Golden Harvest allowed no mishaps with the release of Jackie Chan's latest title, The Accidental Spy. Teddy Chan's US$25m action-comedy, which opened over the highly competitive Chinese New Year period on 49 screens, has proved Chan's biggest opener in four years, taking US$1.78m in its first week on release. January has proved successful for Chan in the past. In 1997 Mr Nice Guy, the last Chan film to gross more than Spy in its opening week, pulled in $2,073,601 ...
Korean murder mystery breaks admissions record

10-Jan-2001
A murder mystery film thought to be Korea's first film shot on Super-35mm, has become the country's highest grossing film with 5.8 million admissions.
Kuratorium budget to be slashed

24-Nov-2000
German public film funding body, the Kuratorium of Young German Cinema, is facing a 12% budget cut, which it claims could jeopardise its future existence.
Hallmark taps German fund for feature, TV slate

23-Nov-2000
German fund specialist ALCAS is launching a Euros216.6m operating fund to back three TV mini-series and two feature film projects from US-based producer Hallmark Entertainment.
German culture minister Naumann quits post

22-Nov-2000
Michael Naumann, the German culture minister who oversaw the controversial departure of Berlin International Film Festival chief Moritz de Hadeln, has stepped down after just two years in the job.
ALCAS launches fund for Paramount quartet

22-Nov-2000
German fund specialist ALCAS is offering the investing public a slice of four upcoming Paramount features including the next film in the Tom Clancy franchise, The Sum Of All Fears, and Ben Stiller comedy Zoolander.
MBP backs Sides with second fund

24-Oct-2000
German finance house MBP has launched its second tranche of investment, through which it will back Istvan Szabo's $10.5m Taking Sides amongst other projects.
Hannover Leasing throws $150m into Rings trilogy

23-Oct-2000
Munich-based leasing company Hannover Leasing (HL) has established a $150m (DM350.5m) fund to finance the third installment in New Line Cinema's $270m The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Return Of The King, which Peter Jackson is directing.
Victory Media to finance EM.TV internet venture

17-Oct-2000
Private German film fund Victory Media plans to co-finance EM.TV & Merchandising's proposed internet platform Junior Web through its 16th MultiMediaFonds.
Germany's NSF, MME unveil plans to float

16-Oct-2000
Despite the stormy times currently besetting the capital markets, another two German production outfits - Me, Myself and Eye Entertainment (MME) and Neue Sentimental Film (NSF) - are planning to join the 30-odd media companies listed on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange.
Arranque pacts with Helkon subsidiary

12-Oct-2000
Hamburg-based production outfit Arranque Film has concluded a first-look deal with KinoFilm Muenchen, a subsidiary of German production and distribution group Helkon Media.
Dutch government extends tax incentive scheme

27-Sep-2000
The Dutch government has extended tax measures, introduced in 1997 to encourage private investment in local film production, for another 12 months.
Verhoeven mulls shoot in native Holland

16-Aug-2000
Director Paul Verhoeven, currently in Europe to promote his latest feature Hollow Man, has said he is considering two projects that would take him back to his native Holland: a Dutch-language thriller and an English-language adaptation of French author Guy de Maupassant's short story Mont Oriol.
Dutch industry launches appeal to save Ketelhuis

15-Aug-2000
A group of prominent Dutch film professionals have launched a campaign to rescue the Ketelhuis, the permanent showcase cinema for Dutch film in Amsterdam.
Belgian box office basks in summer high

9-Aug-2000
Admissions in Belgium reached a record-breaking 2.25 million for the month of July, up 30% from the same month in 1999. This resulted in an unprecedented box office gross of more than $12m (BFr500m).
Start-up outfit F.A.M.E. teams with Becker

1-Aug-2000
F.A.M.E. Film & Music Entertainment - the latest German production outfit destined for the Neuer Markt - has sealed a three-year agreement with Australia's Becker Entertainment to jointly develop and produce a raft of features over the next three years.
Production report: HK strives for pan-Asian appeal

13-Jul-2000
The running joke at the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum in April was that the only Asian country producing films of a lower quality than Hong Kong was Macau. The huge success at the Hong Kong box office this year of Nakata Hideo's Japanese psycho-horror Ring ($4m) and Kang Je-gyu's Korean blockbuster Shiri ($750,000) has forced the industry to accept that Hollywood is not the only threat to local product.
Swiss culture ministry's film coffers run dry

11-Jul-2000
Switzerland's production community has been hit by the news that the Swiss culture ministry (BAK) has already committed its entire $4.7m (SFr7.6m) annual budget for film production and development funding only halfway through the year.
Tykwer, Szabo secure German public funding

26-Jun-2000
Tom Tykwer and Istvan Szabo are amongst the film-makers to secure cash in the latest round of funding awards from financing body the German Federal Film Board (FFA).
Die Unberuehrbare wins big at German Film Awards

18-Jun-2000
Oskar Roehler's drama No Place To Go (Die Unberuehrbare), which had its premiere in Cannes last month as part of Directors Fortnight, was the evening's big winner at the 50th German Film Awards in Berlin on June 16, winning the Best Film award, the DM1m ($494,000) Film Strip in Gold, and Best Actress, worth DM20,000 ($9,900) for lead actress Hannelore Elsner.
Germany's IN-motion plans IPO

11-Jun-2000
Frankfurt-based music and film production company, IN-motion movie & TV productions, has become the latest German media company to seek a listing on the Neuer Markt stock exchange.
American Psycho to open Fantasy Filmfest

9-Jun-2000
Mary Harron's American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, will be the opening film at this year's Fantasy Filmfest in Germany.
Babelsberg production chief slams German tax laws

9-Jun-2000
Studio Babelsberg's managing director for production, Rainer Schaper, called for changes to German tax legislation during a speech at this week's Media Forum NRW in Cologne.
Arndt takes producer prize at Cologne

7-Jun-2000
Stefan Arndt has been awarded the Producer Prize at this year's Cologne Conference. The Casting Award went to Anja Dihrberg.
Media Luna launches joint venture sales company

6-Jun-2000
Cologne-based sales agent Media Luna International Film Sales has joined forces with four German production houses to launch an expanded theatrical sales outfit Media Luna Entertainment (MLE).
Atlas picks up Constantin's Harte Jungs

27-Apr-2000
Germany's Atlas International has picked up worldwide sales rights to Constantin Film's latest German box office hit, Ants In The Pants (Harte Jungs), directed by Marc Rothemund.
Murdoch buys 34% of Germany's TM3 channel

26-Apr-2000
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is buying a 34% stake in German TV-channel TM3 from Germany's Tele-Muenchen Group for $168m, taking over the operation 100%.
Keil calls for revamp of German funding system

19-Apr-2000
Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg chief Klaus Keil has called for a rethink of the German public film funding system in the light of German media companies' successful IPOs.
Downtown picks up Belgium's Molokai

10-Apr-2000
UK distributor Downtown Pictures has acquired UK rights to Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien, which screened last week in London at the "United Tastes of Belgium" showcase (March 31-April 5).
Hofer surfaces at BW Film Academy

6-Apr-2000
Former Studio Babelsberg Independents (SBI) chief Arthur Hofer has been appointed artistic head at the Baden-Wuerrttemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. He succeeds Albrecht Ade who founded the academy in 1991.
Naumann cuts Export Union funding

30-Mar-2000
The German Film Export Union's efforts to promote German cinema abroad have been dealt a blow by the decision of federal culture minister Michael Naumann to cut its financial support by $104,500 (DM215,000) this year.
Junkersdorf slams Germany's proposed media law

28-Mar-2000
Producer Eberhard Junkersdorf, chairman of the German Federal Film Board (FFA)'s administrative council, has lashed out at German finance minister Hans Eichel for his planned revisions to legislation governing private media funds in Germany.
Hofer set to quit Babelsberg

28-Mar-2000
Germany's Studio Babelsberg has been rocked by the news that a second executive - Arthur Hofer - is to exit the production centre near Berlin, following the departure of studio boss Friedrich-Carl Wachs at the end of February (Screendaily February 14).
EM.TV confirms Formula One deal

24-Mar-2000
Aggressive German merchandising and production empire EM.TV & Merchandising has confirmed that it has agreed with Bernie Ecclestone to acquire 100% of Speed Investment. The deal gives EM.TV a 50% stake in SLEC, the holding company which owns all Formula One motor racing activities.
Germany's 4Kids jumps on flotation bandwagon

24-Mar-2000
NASDAQ-listed US children's entertainment outfit 4Kids Entertainment is floating on the German stock exchange as part of a dual listing.
Constantin enters international TV production

23-Mar-2000
Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film is expanding into production of international TV event programming with a $20m two-part adaptation of Marion Zimmer Bradley's international sword and sorcery bestseller The Mists Of Avalon.
Kinowelt mulls investment in Kloiber's TM3

22-Mar-2000
Aggressive German media group Kinowelt is considering taking over Rupert Murdoch's 66% stake in Munich-based channel TM3 as a means of gaining access to a broadcast outlet according to German press reports.
BKN International raises $60m from IPO

21-Mar-2000
Children''s animation producer and distributor BKN International raised $59.5m (euros61.2m) from its IPO on Frankfurt''s Neuer Markt last week.
Drefa to exit Progress Film Distributors

20-Mar-2000
Drefa Media Holding, a subsidiary of Leipzig-based public broadcaster MDR, is planning to sell its 37.5% stake in the recently privatised East German Progress Film Distributors.
Sony, Dubbing Brothers team up for German launch

17-Mar-2000
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and French dubbing specialist Dubbing Brothers have unveiled plans to build a $4.5m (DM9m) state-of-the-art digital facility at the Babelsberg studios outside Berlin.
Kirch Group sets up holding company

16-Mar-2000
German media mogul Leo Kirch has put the final pieces of Kirch Group''s restructuring in place. As of April 1, former KirchVermogensVerwaltungs assumes a new role, and user-friendlier name, when, as KirchHolding, it becomes the central holding company.
CineMedia set to board Becker studio project

14-Mar-2000
Aggressively-expanding German post-production group, CineMedia, is in talks to co-produce a $65-75m adaptation of an unnamed best-selling novel, to be directed by City Hall director Harold Becker.
Antena 3, Fox ink five-year output deal

7-Mar-2000
Twentieth Century Fox International Television and Antena 3 have entered into a five-year output deal which includes future feature films as well as titles such as Independence Day, Romeo & Juliet, The Full Monty and There's Something About Mary.
Top auteurs give support to human rights fest

6-Mar-2000
An initiative to create a multi-territory festival aiming to use film to promote awareness for human rights issues has garnered glittering support from the film industry.
Canary Islands gets second film commission

6-Mar-2000
Tenerife's local government has formed a film commission to encourage international productions to shoot on the island.
Germany's Primacom plans digital launch

1-Mar-2000
Germany's third-largest cable operator Primacom is launching a digital pay-TV platform in May. The yet-to-be-named service will offer more than 80 channels, pay-per-view, internet and other services.
Intertainment signs $22m deal with Spain's Manga

29-Feb-2000
Germany's Intertainment has signed a $22.4m multi-picture deal with Spanish distributor Manga Films.
FFC, AtomFilms give shorts theatrical outing

28-Feb-2000
Independent distribution outfit the Feature Film Company (FFC) has teamed up with Seattle-based Internet distributor AtomFilms to secure a number of short films a theatrical outing in the UK.
Filmax launches Galician animation studio

23-Feb-2000
Spain's growing mini-studio The Filmax Group has joined with post-production laboratory Filmtel and a Galician capital risk fund to launch animation producer Bren Entertainment.
Grade consortium buys Pinewood for $99m

22-Feb-2000
After announcing yesterday that it has sold Odeon Cinemas to private equity financier Cinven, the UK's Rank group today confirmed the sale of British film studio Pinewood Studios to a consortium headed by former Channel 4 boss Michael Grade for $99m (£62m).
Visionview taps Berliner Bank's Robbins

21-Feb-2000
Veteran UK film and television financier Jim Reeve has ramped up his financing outfit Visionview with the appointment of Steve Robbins.
Rotterdam's CineMart sows seeds for Berlin

10-Feb-2000
The Berlin International Film Festival and market may only have unfolded this week, but the mating game for development and production finance partners is already in full swing.
Fresh talent picks up Tigers at Rotterdam

7-Feb-2000
Three fledgling directors from three different international territories walked away with a VPRO Tiger Award at the close of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam on Saturday night.
Artificial Eye unveils debut productions

2-Feb-2000
UK specialist distributor Artificial Eye Film Company is kickstarting its long-planned move into production with Working Up To Winter, a contemporary road movie written and to be directed by Sarah Turner.
Belgium caught in funding war

27-Jan-2000
An angry war of words has broken out among Belgium's regional and national governments over the thorny issue of funding policies for the audio-visual industry.
Flanders chief plans Ghent film commission

26-Jan-2000
Flanders International Film Festival director Jacques Dubrulle is drawing up plans that could lead to Ghent becoming the first Belgian city to launch a film commission.
Soccer pic producers score in battle against BSkyB

25-Jan-2000
UK film-making duo Mary McGuckian and John Lynch have succeeded in their bid to prevent satellite broadcaster BSkyB from carrying the film Best on one of its movie channels.
Soccer pic producers take BSkyB to court

20-Jan-2000
UK film making duo Mary McGuckian and John Lynch are applying for a court injunction to prevent satellite broadcaster BSkyB from carrying the film Best on one of its movie channels.

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